Проблемы исследования Холокоста в Российской Федерации
18 February, 2020
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International Holocaust Memorial Day
17 January, 2020
The cordially invites you to the commemoration of the on Monday, January 27, 2020, at 2 pm. 14:00 Lighting the candles of remembrance by students of Budapest schools; 14:00 Salutatory by Dr. Tamás Kovács, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center; 14:20 Message of the Secretary General of the United...
Visit of Bonnie L. Glick
20 December, 2019
Kind words of support and appreciation from Bonnie L. Glick, Deputy Administrator of USAID, following her visit to the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest. "It was a deeply moving experience for me and a welcome reminder of humanity's capacity for evil but also of our shared responsibility to remember and to prevent hatred on that scale from ever again gaining a...
Between Life and Death - exhibition
05 November, 2019
What was the daily experience of Jews hiding from the German machine of extermination and those who brought them help sometimes even risking their lives? An exhibition that juxtaposes these two distinct yet intertwined perspectives will be displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Center from 6 November till 15 December 2019. The travelling display showcases personal stories of...
Between Life and Death - exhibition
05 November, 2019
What was the daily experience of Jews hiding from the German machine of extermination and those who brought them help sometimes even risking their lives? An exhibition that juxtaposes these two distinct yet intertwined perspectives will be displayed at the Holocaust Memorial Center from 6 November till 15 December 2019. The travelling display showcases personal stories of...
Holocaust by Bullets training for teachers
06 September, 2019
Following our first and second very successful seminar in 2017 and 2018, the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest together with the Yahad-In Unum research organization from France is organizing its 3rd ‘Holocaust by Bullets’ seminar for teachers on 6th -7th December 2019. Yahad-In Unum (“Together in One” in Hebrew and Latin) is a Paris-based non-profit...
BBC News: How Spanish 'Angel of Budapest' Sanz Briz saved Jews
19 March, 2019
Thousands of Holocaust survivors and their descendants escaped the Nazis thanks to a Spanish diplomat nicknamed "the Angel of Budapest" - yet the late Angel Sanz Briz is hardly known in Spain today. Sanz Briz was serving in Spain's embassy as commercial attaché, before being left in charge of the mission in mid-1944 at the age of 33. He was one of a group of...
Tibor Baranski, 1922-2019
23 January, 2019
Rescuer of hundreds of Jews in war-time Budapest, Tibor Baranski, 96, died in his home in Buffalo, NY. Tibor Baranski, born in Budapest, was studying for the priesthood in the city of Kassa / Košice (today Slovakia) near the Russian front. At the beginning of November 1944, Baranski was forced to leave Kassa and return home. When he arrived in Budapest, a...
75th Anniversary of the Destruction of the Minsk Ghetto
18 October, 2018
75 years ago, on 21 October 1943, the German security forces and their collaborators surrounded the Minsk ghetto for the last time. It was the day of the final destruction of the ghetto and the day of murdering its last residents. The Nazis established the ghetto on 19 July 1941, within a month of the occupation of the Belarusian capital. The more than fifty thousand...
Ninetieth Anniversary of Birth of Elie Wiesel
30 September, 2018
The Mensch International Foundation wishes to honor fond the memory of Elie Wiesel today which would have been his 90th Birthday. His loss is not only a personal loss to his wife and son but a profound loss to the world. It is especially a loss to all Holocaust survivors and their children. Elie Wiesel, prisoner no. H-7713, was the conscience of the...
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The Holocaust: Annihilation, Liberation, Rescue
In 2020, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the emblematic extermination camp of the Nazi Germany, a unique symbol of cruelty and inhumanity is observed. At this occasion, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest stages a chamber exhibition jointly with the Russian Holocaust Research and Education Center and the Russian Jewish Congress. The...
Exhibition begins
27 January, 2020
Exhibition ends
16 April, 2020
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Did You Know?
What is the exact name of the institution?
I have encountered various names of the institution in the press.
The correct name of the institution is Holocaust Memorial Center, in Hungarian Holokauszt Emlékközpont. The name of the foundation operating the institution is Holocaust Documentation Center Memorial Collection Public Foundation, the Hungarian acronym for it is HDKE.
